Grace Place, 1st Floor
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Saturday 9/12, 3pm

Michael Copperman is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Cultures at Michigan State University. His memoir Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Oregon Book Award in CNF. He is the Creative Nonfiction editor for the Northwest Review.

His new book Seeking Kenny is about the extremes of the American subculture of wrestling as seen through the story of five-time national champion Kenny Cox’s pilgrimage deep into the wilderness of Kauai’s Na Pali Coast (University of Iowa Press 2026).